On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:49:39AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Jared McNeill wrote: >>> I would argue that any manually loaded module shouldn't be autounloaded. >>> What do you think about flagging modules as autoloaded and only >>> autounloading the autoloaded ones? >> >> If I "manually" load a dozen drivers at boot because I have a dozen >> different boards with different devices. I'd kinda like the system to >> "automatically" figure out what isn't needed and unload those drivers. > > The general idea here probably is that you shouldn't actually load manually > all those drivers, but the system should be able to autoload modules specific > to your hardware. But we are not there yet. And AFAIR, neither is FreeBSD. That's true. It is a hard problem that people have been working around by manually loading things. :) Warner